this makes me happy

blacksburg buddies

Some of our Blacksburg friends, Jason and Lynn just moved to Clemson last week! We are so glad to have them here! Here Lydda Grace and Lynn show off their shades.

Then, other Blacksburg friends, Janae and Abbie (who have since moved to NC) came for a visit today! Janae, Lynn and I had such a nice visit and the girls got along great! Lydda Grace and Abbie are about 3 weeks apart so they are both at the point where they are clapping, crawling everywhere and being curious about everything around them! So cute!!

happy birthday Aunt Bekah

Today Lydda Grace and I went to Greenville for Bek's birthday. I stayed up last night to finish Lydda Grace's birthday outfit (it's technically for her birthday, but I wanted her to go ahead and start getting wear out of it!). We had a nice time visiting and then went to Bek's sweet friend Hannah's house where she made a birthday lunch!
In other news...... tonight we put Lydda Grace in the pack n play in the kitchen to play while we were cleaning up. We turned around and she was standing up! I said, "Jon did you stand her up?" and he said, "No, did you?" and we both realized she stood up on her own!! She was very smiley and happy about her accomplishment!

today

Today we had lunch with a friend from grad school, Meg Newton. It was wonderful to catch up with her and let her meet Lydda Grace!!
Lydda Grace refused to nap this afternoon and was getting fussy... enter tupperware lids... we have found a great new toy!
(she is drooling through bibs and clothes so fast these days I finally just threw a t-shirt on with her diaper!!)

visiting Great Grandma

On Tuesday Lydda Grace and I visited my Grandma! We had such a great time and Lydda Grace was so sweet, in spite of her teething and excessive drooling (hence the change of outfits) :o) We love you Grandma!

yard sale!

Saturday we had a yard sale with our friends the Smiths. It was rather last minute and worked out amazingly well... I think if I had known about it for weeks I would have taken weeks to sort through stuff, as it were, we did it in one night, sold the next morning and carted leftovers off to a thrift store... so quick and easy!

Lydda Grace got to spend the morning with her friend Zoey (they are 2 weeks apart). We put the girls in the pack n play in the front yard and they just played and jabbered under the rainbow umbrella for the longest time (until LG got super tired and whiny and crying... I think this was all the beginning of the previous post... teething). Anway... enought typing... time for pictures!

It's 6:30AM and Lydda Grace is ready to go!

Zoey and Lydda Grace

Playin' in the shade... seriously is this not the life or what!

poor baby

Lydda Grace is teething... sigh. Her bottom two came in without so much as a whimper. These top teeth are a different breed altogether. Our baby girl got one two hour stretch of sleep last night... the rest of the night she was (and we were) up every 10-30 minutes crying so pitifully. It makes me so sad for her!
We're praying these teeth break through very soon!